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Debian Security Advisory DSA 257-1 (sendmail)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to sendmail announced via advisory DSA 257-1.
Insight
Insight
Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force found a bug in the header parsing routines of sendmail: it could overflow a buffer overflow when encountering addresses with very long comments. Since sendmail also parses headers when forwarding emails this vulnerability can hit mail-servers which do not deliver the email as well. This has been fixed in upstream release 8.12.8, version 8.12.3-5 of the package for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/woody and version 8.9.3-25 of the package for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20257-1